Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] far [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	However , lack of cover leads to the birds feeling insecure so they tend not to stray too far from the hen house .
2	He did n't ask her to go to the village surgery , but made it clear that she was n't to stray too far from the complex when he was n't there .
3	However , I do not wish to stray too far from the motion .
4	No-one seems to progress very far from the point at which they started , and if they try , they generally get it all wrong .
5	Darlington MP Michael Fallon said it was crazy for the brochure to encourage people to stay so far from the town .
6	Mr Fallon said it was ‘ crazy ’ for the brochure to encourage people to stay so far from the town .
7	It is clear from these examples that and on the one hand and and on the other were not , or came not to be , co-extensive , the former pair being , or becoming , confined to specific grades of medreses , the latter retaining , or developing , a wider geographical significance whose Importance is not altogether clear beyond the fact that it was impossible to get very far in the hierarchy without having taught in the .
8	I thought you were too scared to move so far from the house , especially alone with Celia . ’
9	Lord Cullen believed that his remit did not allow him to move too far into the question of labour relations , and said so in paragraph 21.83 of his report .
10	Jokes with the younger farm-hands who were wise enough not to go too far with the granddaughter of the boss .
11	I wanted to sail to the Canary Islands , but I was afraid to go too far from the shore .
12	They came down the steps of the hotel with their Kodaks — at the Continental there was always a large number of Americans — and were immediately fallen upon by dragomans , donkey-boys and street-traders of all kinds , all offering instant picturesqueness without the trouble of having to go too far in the heat to find it .

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